World Journal of Gastroenterology

World Journal of Gastroenterology
DisciplineGastroenterology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byAndrzej S. Tarnawski
Publication details
Former name(s)
China National Journal of New Gastroenterology
History1995-present
Publisher
FrequencyWeekly
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution Non-commercial
5.742 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4World J. Gastroenterol.
Indexing
CODENWJGAF2
ISSN1007-9327 (print)
2219-2840 (web)
OCLC no.41888177
Links

World Journal of Gastroenterology is a weekly peer-reviewed open access medical journal that covers research in gastroenterology. It was established in 1995 and is published by Baishideng Publishing Group.[1] The editor-in-chief is Andrzej S. Tarnawski (California State University, Long Beach).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

In 2004, the journal was delisted from the Journal Citation Reports for excessive self-citation,[6] but it was restored to this index in 2008, at which time its impact factor was determined to be 2.081.[7] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.742, ranking it 28th out of 92 journals in the category "Gastroenterology and Hepatology".[8]

References

  1. ^ "World Journal of Gastroenterology".
  2. ^ "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts. CABI. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  3. ^ "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  4. ^ a b "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  5. ^ "World Journal of Gastroenterology". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  6. ^ Monastersky, Richard (October 14, 2005). "The number that's devouring science: The impact factor, once a simple way to rank scientific journals, has become an unyielding yardstick for hiring, tenure, and grants". Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 52, no. 9. p. A12.
  7. ^ Davis, Phil (October 17, 2011), "Gaming the impact factor puts journal in time-out", The Scholarly Kitchen (blog).
  8. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Gastroenterology and Hepatology". 2016 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.